50+ Recycled Crafts & Activities for Kids - Our Family Code (2024)

Find out how to make a recycled plastic water bottle sun catcher with some plastic water bottles and permanent markers!

Reuse plastic water bottles into sensory bottles! Find out the science behind sensory bottles and build your own!

Turn plastic netting into an eco-friendly dish scrubber! We love this unique repurposed activity!

Make a plastic-like substance with this Earth friendly science activity for kids.

Reuse plastic bottle tops with this great counting activity!

Turn a water bottle into a beautiful sunflower craft with this recycled art activity.

Reuse plastic lids to make an engaging sensory play activity for your baby!

How cute are these woodland animal planters made from recycled plastic bottles?!

Reuse milk jugs to create flowers for a beautiful flower leaf recycled art craft.

Create a colorful turkey toddler craft and work on hand-eye coordination by placing feathers into holes in toilet paper tubes.

This recycled engineering activity is superb for reusing paper towel tubes, plastic straws, and ribbon spools!

Reuse toilet paper tubes to make Grogu (Baby Yoda) from The Mandalorian.

Reuse toilet paper tubes to create Toy Story inspired rocketships!

Reuse cardboard tubes to create these adorable little tube chicks!

Make a Stick Man out of recycled materials and read the book "Stick Man" by Julia Donaldson.

Use paper tubes and a recycled cardboard box to create a tube pattern matching game for toddlers and preschoolers.

Make a process art sculpture with paper tubes with this art + engineering activity!

Recycle toilet paper tubes into an epic ice castle!

Reuse toilet paper tubes to create a magnetic ball run with this great STEM activity!

Reuse toilet paper rolls to create a trinket display for toys.

This castle STEAM challenge pairs art and engineering to challenge kids to make a working drawbridge out of a recycled box for a castle!

Learn how to make a string instrument with cardboard! This activity is a great way to pair engineering skills with art!

Fly to the moon with a cardboard space shuttle made from repurposed cardboard boxes!

Create a giant nail salon with a recycled cardboard box!

Make a play shop from a cardboard box with this recycled play activity!

Repurpose a cardboard box into a pirate ship!

Create a ball drop toy for babies from a repurposed box.

Reuse cereal boxes to make magnetic tile puzzles for toddlers and preschoolers!

Reuse a cardboard box to make an upper and lowercase letter matching game for preschoolers!

Use recycled newspaper to create this adorable koala craft!

This crafty owl is made with recycled newspaper! How cute!

Create a floating pirate ship with a recycled milk carton!

Create a nature exploration notebook with a repurposed paper bag to help keep your outdoor activities from blowing away.

Find out how to make paper and reuse those paper scraps before you send them to the garbage.

Build the Eiffel Tower out of recycled newspaper with this Engineering + Art recycled activity!

Learn how to make handmade gift bows and reduce your consumption of pre-made gift bows while also reusing paper!

Recycle egg cartons to make flowers for this hands-on math activity!

Reuse egg cartons to make a cute helicopter craft!

Reuse an egg carton by turning it into a boat with this easy recycled summer activity!

Repurpose crayons into beautiful sun catchers from crayon shavings!

Did you know you can take broken crayons and melt them into brand new crayons? Find out how to reuse broken crayons into these neat star shaped crayons.

Learn how to make a classic sock puppet and reuse some old or mismatched socks.

This unique activity uses corn husks to make dolls!

Reuse fabric scraps to make a beautiful fabric mache bowl.

Reuse tin cans to make pencil holders with this cute summer recycled craft activity.

Use fabric scraps or old clothes to sew an adorable bunny.

Find a bunch of recycled plant pot ideas and start reusing milk jugs, newspaper, egg cartons, and more today to grow your gardens!

This Earth Day coding recycling sorting activity teaches children how conditional statements work while learning how to sort recyclables!